Will handle handles e-mail, chat, SMS, Office Web apps all in one.
Popular social networking site Facebook today announced it is rolling out a
whole new messaging system over the next few months that "isn't just e-mail,"
but integrates four common ways users communicate: email, Facebook messages and
chat, and SMS, and archives it all in a single thread.
The new system puts a user's identity above the communication protocol. Facebook
Engineer Joel Seligstein today said, "You decide how you want to talk to your
friends...They will receive your message through whatever medium or device is
convenient for them, and you can both have a conversation in real time. You
shouldn't have to remember who prefers IM over email or worry about which
technology to use. Simply choose their name and type a message."
Messages are received in an inbox, but it eschews the conventions of email
and Facebook messaging (subject lines, recipient/cc/bcc fields, and such,) and
instead turns all conversation into a chat, where the conversation and the
person you're conversing with are merged.
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Popular social networking site Facebook today announced it is rolling out a
whole new messaging system over the next few months that "isn't just e-mail,"
but integrates four common ways users communicate: email, Facebook messages and
chat, and SMS, and archives it all in a single thread.
The new system puts a user's identity above the communication protocol. Facebook
Engineer Joel Seligstein today said, "You decide how you want to talk to your
friends...They will receive your message through whatever medium or device is
convenient for them, and you can both have a conversation in real time. You
shouldn't have to remember who prefers IM over email or worry about which
technology to use. Simply choose their name and type a message."
Messages are received in an inbox, but it eschews the conventions of email
and Facebook messaging (subject lines, recipient/cc/bcc fields, and such,) and
instead turns all conversation into a chat, where the conversation and the
person you're conversing with are merged.
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